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FORT Discover, Fla. -- A local trash company is moving toward a cleaner and greener landfill technique, and adding jobs to the local economy.
The trash entourage, Waste Pro, is breaking ground on a compressed natural gas complex that will be talented to fuel 80 trucks simultaneously on Selvitz Road.
No one likes to contemplate about trash, where it goes, and how much fuel is burned loading and unloading detritus. But it's a lot.
By creating this new $100 million complex and switching 150 trucks to cleaner fuels, Neglect Pro hopes to leave a smaller carbon footprint. The new complex adds central jobs to the Treasure Coast economy and saves them on fuel consumption. It cuts their gas management in half.
County commissioners support the complex as a good for the medium, good for jobs, and good for St. Lucie County.
"We currently invest $1.5 million on fuel, this should lower our bill to $750,000 once we implement this technology. Cleaner? Much cleaner. There's to all intents no exhaust that comes out when you use compressed natural gas," said Russell Mackie, Wither Pro Regional VP.
Source: WPEC